Paul Pry

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A nosy person.
    — This self-gratulation is very natural; but it is not very just. The desire of knowledge is innate in human nature. We are all born more or less of a Paul Pry, and inherit a good dash of the temperament of "our general mother".

词源

Name of the interfering protagonist in John Poole's 1825 comic play of the same name; alliterative, from pry.
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